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Comments for "Poll Results: How Important is Backwards Compatibility to You?"enRe: Poll Results: How Important is Backwards Compatibility ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/03/05/poll-results-how-important-backwards-compatibility-you#comment-285463
<p>True but if I was on the production team I would consider doing more market research into it before I pushed forward to design a new system that didn&#39;t have backwards compatability.</p>
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:22:04 +0000olstar18comment 285463 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Poll Results: How Important is Backwards Compatibility ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/03/05/poll-results-how-important-backwards-compatibility-you#comment-285435
<p>I&#39;d be careful about extrapolating these results to all gamers. This is a self-selected sample of readers of this blog, which could potentially lead to a quite biased sample. For such samples, the people with strong opinions (particularly when things aren&#39;t going their way) are more likely to vote. In this case, the result would most likely be skewing the sample to have disproportionately many people who want backwards-compatibility.</p>
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:32:46 +0000Infophilecomment 285435 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Poll Results: How Important is Backwards Compatibility ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/03/05/poll-results-how-important-backwards-compatibility-you#comment-285434
<p>One option to solve this problem is to come out with multiple versions of a console, including a more-expensive option that does have backwards-compatibility. The problem here is that this tends to cost more overall and slow down the production schedule.</p>
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:29:26 +0000Infophilecomment 285434 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Poll Results: How Important is Backwards Compatibility ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/03/05/poll-results-how-important-backwards-compatibility-you#comment-285430
<p>Because of limited titles at launch this can be an important feature, but as time goes on the need for backward compatibility dwindles. &nbsp;Sure there will always be a hardcore group that wants that feature, but it&#39;s not cost effective to create a more expensive console to appease such a small group. &nbsp;If it&#39;s something you can accomplish with emulators, that puts less financial strain on the consumers, but it shifts that burden to the console developer, and since you&#39;re likely going to buy those games used, there is no incentive for devs to make emulators anyway. &nbsp;Worse yet, emulators don&#39;t always work properly; checking out the things that don&#39;t work right on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360">Wikipedia&nbsp;list for 360 backward compatibility</a> could make anyone vomit. &nbsp;The only way to ensure solid backward compatibility is to include a GPU and CPU from the previous generation. &nbsp;It&#39;s simply not fair to push that cost onto consumers who don&#39;t necessarily want that feature.</p>
<p>That said, I personally would prefer this feature, but I&#39;m also not willing to pay a premium for it.</p>
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:29:52 +0000Imautobotcomment 285430 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: Poll Results: How Important is Backwards Compatibility ...http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/03/05/poll-results-how-important-backwards-compatibility-you#comment-285427
<p>On the other hand, if 30% of gamers would refuse to buy a new console that doesn&#39;t have backward compatibility, that&#39;s a <strong>lot</strong> of lost sales.</p>
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:25:29 +0000Constercomment 285427 at http://www.gamepolitics.com